According to Credit Suisse, in 2018, ten percent of the world's population owned 85 percent of the world's wealth. Maybe these people have extraordinary abilities? They are the smartest or most physically tough ones. It turns out, no. Who is more likely to get rich.
Fixated on their poverty
In 2012, scientists at the University of Chicago conducted an unusual experiment. They asked several dozen young people aged 25 to play three computer games - the American counterparts of Wonderland and Hundred to One, as well as a game reminiscent of Angry Birds. All participants were conditionally divided into rich and poor. The former got more attempts to guess the word or shoot than the latter. At the same time, the volunteers could take a loan - an additional chance to cope with a difficult task - or skip a turn, saving unused attempts. All games were won by the "rich" - mainly due to the irrational behavior of players from the "poor" group. Participants with a limited set of attempts tended to spend a lot of credits on difficult questions. Because of this, they scored fewer points per attempts. In addition, they were less likely to notice cluesleft by researchers on the tables of participants in the game "One hundred to one". According to experts, this suggests that poverty (lack of resources) forces a person to focus on immediate problems and ignore more distant tasks in time, the solution of which can improve his situation. In other words, the poor do not know how to abstract and calculate several steps ahead. This, incidentally, can explain the popularity of short-term loans with a high interest rate among the poorest segments of the population. Probably due to the fixation on solving current problems, it is more difficult for the poor to start earning a lot than people from wealthy families.that poverty (a lack of resources) forces a person to focus on immediate problems and ignore more distant tasks in time, the solution of which can improve his situation. In other words, the poor do not know how to abstract and calculate several steps ahead. This, incidentally, can explain the popularity of short-term loans with a high interest rate among the poorest segments of the population. Probably due to the fixation on solving current problems, it is more difficult for the poor to start earning a lot than people from wealthy families.that poverty (a lack of resources) forces a person to focus on immediate problems and ignore more distant tasks in time, the solution of which can improve his situation. In other words, the poor do not know how to abstract and calculate several steps ahead. This, incidentally, can explain the popularity of short-term loans with a high interest rate among the poorest segments of the population. Probably due to the fixation on solving current problems, it is more difficult for the poor to start earning a lot than people from wealthy families.can explain the popularity of short-term loans with high interest rates among the poorest segments of the population. Probably due to the fixation on solving current problems, it is more difficult for the poor to start earning a lot than people from wealthy families.can explain the popularity of short-term loans with high interest rates among the poorest segments of the population. Probably due to the fixation on solving current problems, it is more difficult for the poor to start earning a lot than people from wealthy families.
Wealth loves the brave
According to the work of Canadian physiologists, people who have grown up in wealth are more inclined to take risks and are confident in themselves. This allows them to quickly make decisions, adequately perceive life situations, and be more professionally successful. While their poorer peers are more cautious. The point is in the different levels of the stress hormone - cortisol - in people from rich and poor families. The latter have more of this hormone in their blood. Cortisol is involved in the formation of defense responses in response to external threats. Its concentration increases dramatically when it is necessary to escape from pursuers or fight the enemy. However, if high levels of the hormone are maintained constantly, the person becomes more cautious. In addition, the habits of his parents affect a person's chances of getting rich, according to scientists from Brown University (USA). Among the most harmful are the love of sports betting and life beyond our means. But the presence of additional sources of income, reading professional literature and saving for a rainy day are those habits that will help a child become better off than his parents were. Cynicism in relation to others and the ability to "walk over their heads", on the contrary, will not lead to financial success, according to German scientists. Two large-scale polls showed that there are more cynics among people with relatively low incomes than among those who earn a lot. This is probably due to the fact that such a person rejects the help of friends and acquaintances, although people can achieve the greatest success only together, the authors of the work emphasize.reading professional literature and saving for a rainy day are those habits that will help a child become better off than his parents were. Cynicism in relation to others and the ability to "walk over their heads", on the contrary, will not lead to financial success, according to German scientists. Two large-scale polls showed that there are more cynics among people with relatively low incomes than among those who earn a lot. This is probably due to the fact that such a person rejects the help of friends and acquaintances, although people can achieve the greatest success only together, the authors of the work emphasize.reading professional literature and saving for a rainy day are those habits that will help a child become better off than his parents were. Cynicism in relation to others and the ability to "walk over their heads", on the contrary, will not lead to financial success, according to German scientists. Two large-scale polls showed that there are more cynics among people with relatively low incomes than among those who earn a lot. This is probably due to the fact that such a person rejects the help of friends and acquaintances, although people can achieve the greatest success only together, the authors of the work emphasize.believeGerman scientists. Two large-scale polls showed that there are more cynics among people with relatively low incomes than among those who earn a lot. This is probably due to the fact that such a person rejects the help of friends and acquaintances, although people can achieve the greatest success only together, the authors of the work emphasize.believeGerman scientists. Two large-scale polls showed that there are more cynics among people with relatively low incomes than among those who earn a lot. This is probably due to the fact that such a person rejects the help of friends and acquaintances, although people can achieve the greatest success only together, the authors of the work emphasize.
Talent versus luck
According to Italian scientists, financial success does not depend on innate talents and intelligence. He is the result of a coincidence. The researchers created a computer simulation in which thousands of participants with average abilities (talent, intelligence, and performance) and the same level of well-being had to compete for resources. During the experiment, random events were periodically introduced into the model, which the participants could use equally. After a while, in an artificially created society, 80 percent of virtual wealth belonged to 20 percent of people. The experiment was repeated several times (using different scenarios for the development of society), and the result was always the same: most of the resources ended up in the hands of several individuals. These values are close to the real distribution of world wealth - 85 percent of the resources belong to ten percent of the world's population. This means that success and financial well-being often go not to those who deserve it, but to people who find themselves in the right place at the right time.
Alfiya Enikeeva
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